And We Moved!

here's a new song .. And We Moved!

the 19 hour "slow boat to china" round trip to play a show in bath last week was nothing short of unncessary...thank goodness for the fleet foxes and "on the road" to keep me company.

We've lost a member of our gtgt travelling family band this week; not to worry , all is good and things are sounding better than ever...we're getting ready for the show at cobden club at the end of this month..it'll be a new troupe and most importantly, new songs from this new record that yes, i know, i've been going on about for a while now but it'll be worth the wait.

this wednesday..

A GREAT LINEUP!! Hope to see you there..i'm on at 9pm.



Choir of Young Believers
Choir of Young Believers’ songs sound as if they’re coming straight from the heart of the two song writing brothers Jannis and Noya Makrigiannis; the music itself sounds equally heartfelt and thoughtful. The songs build up slowly, constantly adding one brilliantly clear element after another to end in intense (often loud) climaxes. Choir of Young Believers are an example of the singer song writer genre taken far above the coffee house chain friendly level, to become grander, more unorthodox and much more insisting.

http://www.myspace.com/choirofyoungbelievers



Good Times Good Times
Is the moniker used by a darkly handsome man simply known by the name Franc. He writes the lyrics and tunes for the bluesy/ folky songs Good Times Good Times play at times in the shape of a 4-5 man band and other times acoustically.

http://www.myspace.com/thisisgoodtimesgoodtimes



I Got You On Tape
Imagine you’re sitting in a luxury car, insulated from the city out side by that particular quietness.. I Got You On Tape are a bit like this; their dark, smooth sound insulates the listener from the outside.The melodies are strong and shift between hard guitar driven and more trippy organ based. Lead singer Jacob Bellen’s voice is deep and warm, and the inner city poetic songs slide softly in the most beautiful manner. This is rock in the vein of Interpol, but with a distinctive introspective Danish touch.

http://www.myspace.com/igotyouontape




The Lofty Heights
The brainchild of a Californian transplanted in to worn down Dalston, Greg Griffin's London project The Lofty Heights revolves around the genius idea of combining the laid back sounds of his native state with the traditional folk song of the East End. The results are rather spectacular; wistful surf dirges that talk about lost loves, home sickness and the ancient people of France, that all have a cockney sing-a-long quality about them. A bit like the Shins deciding to cover Chas and Dave songs.

http://www.myspace.com/theloftyheights


8.40pm Choir of Young Believers
9.25pm Good Times Good Times
10.10pm I Got You On Tape
11.00pm The Lofty Heigths

get ready

i've just posted three new demos on the myspace page; have a listen and lemme know what you think! i'll be putting up some more at the end of this week.


http://www.myspace.com/thisisgoodtimesgoodtimes

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new tunes

the first six songs for the new record are now set in stone. it's taken a couple of months of writing alot of tunes, around 30 i think from which i've taken these first six and have endless lists and little bits recorded here and there for the 2nd half of the record. when i made my little "glue" last year, most of those songs i'd been playing at shows for ages so it was really easy to decide which songs i wanted to lay down, apart from a couple that came at the very end. but this time i round it felt like i had something to prove...only to myself that i could string together a bunch of songs that work together as a unit. something you can listen to from start to finish for 40 minutes or so and get taken to different places .. a little trip of observation, nothing more. so i wiped the slate completely clean and decided i wasnt going to work on any tunes that i'd written before this summer. it's almost there. thank goodness. spending days..and days on end working on new stuff trying to kick start creativity and then you kind of forget what sunlight looks like. it's not the easiest thing in the world trying to make something that's going to make others enjoy it hopefully as much as you do and not be too self indulgent in the songs. especially the lyrics. me me me. no one wants to hear it little man. i do have stuff i can post already but i'm going to wait till all the arrangements are finished and then you can listen to the end result. which i know you're gonna love ;) also this time round i have a band so arrangements and getting parts down takes more time. i dont like just arranging new songs in the practice room 'cause what usually happens is songs get arranged "from A to B' so if the drummer plays something everyone's going to play around that , likewise for the guitar part or whatever. so i'm working with everyone individually first and getting them to play what comes natural and see how they each interpret the part..then, left to my own devices i mix and edit everything and what comes out at the end should hopefully be what no one expected in the first place. that's the plan anyway. so just thought i'd give you a little update on what i've been up to as i dont really "blog" as much as i should. there's a reason for that though, people that enjoy talking about themselves are usually wankers so it's best left to others to do the talking.
havent got many shows lined up in the next month or so, i'm playing the edinburgh fringe festival next week and a couple of random shows in oxford and the midlands..i think. touring should start again in october, there's a week of shows in november in italy that i should be doing with the whole band and then i'm sure a few months of random train journeys and sleeping on strangers' floors to get my music out to all you good good people.
stay well
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Download our music free

some very clever people at MusicGlue.com have devised this very cool little gadget the lets you download our music for completely free...all we kindly ask in return is for your email address. That way we can keep in touch with the people that dig the tunes and let you know when we're playing near you.

We've set up these five tracks for your FREE downloading pleasure..just click on any of the links...



KIDS

SEA SHANTY

DESIRE

SUNSHINE SUNSHINE


GLUE


if you're magically inclined to BUY the music you listen to then go to http://www.goodtimesgoodtimes.co.uk to download indvidual tracks or the whole record or get the cd.


In other news, the new record is coming along nicely and we'll have some brand new tracks for you within a couple of weeks..

stay well & thanks for tuning in
gtgt
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WIP

this is the first blog in quite a while so just in case you'r ewondering; am still very much here. been working on a new record, the songs are all set, just laying them down now and then we'll see. i'll post some new stuff up soon enough. it's been work in progress for a couple of months.
playing a show tomorrow night with the band in london..
The Good Ship, 289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR

alright. back soon
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